Portal:Current events/2013 October 28

• Two Thai police die while trying to defuse a bomb in Narathiwat province. (Bangkok Post)
• An Indian Army soldier is reported killed and another injured along the Line of Control on the border with Pakistan in Kashmir. (Hindustan Times)
• Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present):
  • Three Egyptian policemen are killed by masked men in an attack at a checkpoint in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war:
  • The Syrian army retakes the ancient Christian town of Sadad. (Press TV) (The Huffington Post)
• Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon:
  • Two people are killed in the northern city of Tripoli in fighting between supporters and opponents of the Syrian government and the Lebanese army. (Reuters)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict:
  • Two rockets fired from the Gaza strip at a southern Israeli coastal city are shot down. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Somali Civil War (2009–present):
  • A suspected U.S. drone strike kills at least two Islamist Al-Shabaab insurgents and commander driving in a car south of the Somali capital Mogadishu. (Reuters) (BBC)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
  • Australia declares its war in Afghanistan over while the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, visits Afghanistan. (Herald Sun)

• Copper fabricator Southwire Co. drops its lawsuit against two giant Wall Street firms over a possible copper exchange-traded fund, as market and regulatory conditions make such an ETF seem decreasingly likely. (Reuters)

• Five people are killed after a car crashes into barriers just outside the Forbidden City in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
• St Jude storm:
  • The storm hits England and Wales, causing at least one death with flights and train services cancelled. (BBC) (AP via CBS News)

• Three Chinese anti-graft activists go on trial in Xinyu in west-central Jiangxi province. (Reuters)
• Dr Conrad Murray is released from prison in the American city of Los Angeles for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. (ABC News)

• 2013 Tunisian protests:
  • Government and opposition leaders launch talks discussing a new premier. (The Daily Star)
  • Ennahda party leader Rashid al-Ghannushi announces in a televised interview that the party may be willing to give up the government but not power. (Al Arabiya)
• Voters in the Canadian territory of Nunavut go to the polls to select members to the territory's Legislative Assembly.

• Three new species of animals are discovered (a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-coloured skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog) in the Cape York Peninsula of the Australian state of Queensland. (news.com.au)